The Hunted

The Hunted is an American action comedy web series created by Robert Chapin. The show follows a group of people who have been bitten by vampires but have not yet been turned, and their attempts to prove the existence of vampires through the web series. The show has been described as a sword-slinging, vampire-slaying cross between the American TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Cops. Episodes have been filmed by amateur and professional filmmakers throughout the United States and overseas. Plot The Hunted is a group of vampire attack survivors who band together to protect themselves from getting turned into cattle. They learn to curb their blood-lust in order to help other potential vampire victims, whom they protect using swords, martial arts and humor. Background The Hunted franchise is based on user-generated content. To generate the series, fans and filmmakers (amateur and professional alike) are encouraged to write and film individual episodes of The Hunted to make a TV series. These episodes can then be uploaded to YouTube with a link to the main program. Contests with rewards, including cash prizes, are given to help encourage users to generate content. Entries are judged by a panel of industry professionals. Initially, seventeen episodes were shot (mostly in Los Angeles) and were eventually made available on a 2-season DVD set and uploaded to YouTube in January 2007. The show has over 100 episodes online including unique content from 5 affiliate projects across the country and fans from around the world. The five main affiliates are The Hunted: NYCSS, the first women-powered series, which created jobs for non-binary and cisfemale artists. NYCSS was directed by Crystal Arnette and starred Orion Cho as Lou, a non-binary mystic. The Hunted: Tampa, The Hunted: Compton, The Chronicles of Kendall, and The Hunted: Expulsion, which has later been rebooted in the form of Hunted: Encore, directed by Ryan Gibeau and written by Ned Donovan with music by Marcus Bagala. The stories are 4–6 minutes so that multiple characters appear in arc-like episodes as opposed to telling a whole story in one chapter.